Operating VL53L1x in histogram mode

[Matthias Hullin]

Posted on March 14, 2018 at 19:31

Dear all,

We are interested in reading out time-of-flight histograms from the VL53L1X to explore the application potential for SPAD technology for medical and cosmetic mass-market applications. The device appears to have such functionality at least for internal purposes, but there are also several references to histograms in the API.

If someone in here should be able to help us out and enable us to get histograms out of this really nice little device, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks and kind regards,

Matthias

[John E KVAM]

Posted on May 02, 2018 at 00:43

Matthias - the VL53L1X code available on the ST web site does not do Histograms. That code is only available from ST if you sign and NDA and go though a lot of work. ST is protecting its patents the old fashioned way, by hiding them.

Call your sales guy and do the paper work. One note: the histogram code is neither small nor easy. But if you really want to get into it, and you are willing to work, you can, but you have to convince ST it's a good idea.